On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:18 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, May 16 2008, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > It is a question to Jens :) > > > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 10:13 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > > Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > > > I do not know the functionality of this module. So, my comments are only > > > > related to code. > > > > > > > > blk_request_rq() frees up the request before it returns (in > > > > blk_end_sync_rq()). So, there is no need for blk_put_request(). My bad... After Jens's comment, looked closely at blk_execute_rq() and blk_end_sync_rq() and realized that there is an additional reference acquired by blk_execute_rq() which is dropped later. > > > > > > > Indeed. But this opens up another question: > > > > > > By the time blk_execute_rq() returns, the request is already > > > put back onto the queue. > > > That means that I shouldn't access rq->errors any more, as > > > the request might have been reused already. > > > But blk_execute_rq() returns -EIO for any error, making it > > > impossible to signal a proper error here. > > > So how do I get the contents of rq->errors safely? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Hannes > > blk_get_request() and blk_put_request() when done. See how > block/scsi_ioctl.c:sg_io() does just that. > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel